BRYAN-Continued. One of his favorite passages in the last two years appears to have been his excited declaration of his resolve to bolt the Democratic ticket if the platform did not insist upon the free coinage of silver. At Jackson, Miss., June 11, 1895, he said: "So help me God, I will die in my tracks before I support" the action of a Democratic national convention which did not declare for free silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. At Birmingham, Ala., in the same year, he averred that "nothing in heaven above, on the earth below, or in hell beneath could make me support a gold-standard candidate on a gold-standard platform." Probably he used the same or similar expressions frequently in the free-silver speeches the making of which has been his principal occupation since 1894. A dispatch printed in the Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune and dated Mount Vernon, Ill., July 12, relates that Mr. Bryan delivered an address in that town March 17, 1896, upon "Bimetallism." He had been imported to Mount Vernon by some of the Democratic politicians, who were not aware of his deal with the Nebraska Populists in 1894, and took him for a Democrat. "To their surprise," says the dispatch, "he took occasion to say that he was not a Democrat." Moreover: "He announced his intention to be at the Chicago Convention, and said that his support of the nominees of that convention was contingent upon its adopting a free-silver coinage platform, and 'no power in heaven or hell,' he said, 'could induce him to vote for that nominee on other than a free-silver platform.' According to his own boast he was not a Democrat in March, and he is no more of a Democrat in July. According to his own threat, made in 1895 and this year, and probably frequently res peated, he would have bolted the nominations made by the Chicago Convention if that body had not made a free-silver platform. Why should any Democrat vote for a man who admitted four months ago that he was not a Democrat? Why should any Democrat deem himself bound by considerations of party regularity to vote for a man who has repeatedly proclaimed his intention to bolt if free silver was not a part of the platform, and who has been nominated on a platform that pulls up the Democracy's principles by the roots? BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS-Members of, as Money-lenders-What Free Silver at 16 to 1 Proposes to do for Them. No. 47. One class of money-lenders are the members of building and loan associations. There are 1,745,000 of them. They have saved $450,667,594, or an average of $257.26 each. There are very exact statistics as to the classes composing them. Of the membership 58.89 per cent. are artisans, mechanics, housekeepers, laborers, mill and factory employees; 22.80 per cent. are salaried clerks, saleswomen, Government employees, etc.; 12.25 per cent. merchants and dealers: 2.96 per cent. manufacturers and capitalists; 2.10 per cent. agents and brokers, and a fractional percentage each of corporation officials and lodges, churches, and societies. Of the savings of this class, the great bulk of whom are hard-working and frugal, the great free-silver idea proposes to take away about one-half because they belong to the category alleged to have oppressed the debtor more than two decades ago. No. 48. BULLION, STANDARD-Value of. An ounce of gold 1000 fine is worth $20.671834--|- An ounce of silver 1000 fine is worth (coining value) $1.292929--|--. No. 49. BULLION, UNPARTED. Gold containing silver, or silver containing gold, which has not been subjected to the parting operation. BUSINESS FAILURES-Total for Six Months Past the Largest Ever Known. No. 50. [Bradstreet, New York, July 3.] Business failures in the United States for six months number 7,602, the largest six months' total since records have been compiled. The increase compared with 1895 and 1894 is more than 1,000 in each instance, 15 and 16 per cent. respectively. Total liabilities are $105,535,000. This has been exceeded only twice before in like periods, in the panic years 1884 and 1893. The increase of total liabilities over the first half of 1895 is 31 per cent., and over 1894 it is 28 per cent. BUSINESS-Continued. The total number of business failures in the Dominion of Canada for six months is 1,184 for 1896, compared with 934 in 1895, an increase of nearly 27 per cent. Business failures were more numerous in the past six months than in the like portion of 1895 in each of the provinces except Manitoba and British Columbia. Total liabilities this year are $8,234,000, against $6,629,000 last year, a gain of 24 per cent. BUTTER-Exports and Imports, 1885 to 1895. BUY WHERE YOU CAN BUY CHEAPEST, not the Best Economy. No. 52. Township, County, State, On a Western farm in during a busy time, when the harvest was ready, one of the boys had just returned home from school. The father proposed to the son that he go into the wheat field and assist in cutting the wheat. The price to be paid was $4 per day-just double the ordinary harvest day's wages. The boy accepted the offer and continued to work until the harvest was put away. The father, sometime afterward, when hauling his wheat to market, asked the bookkeeper in the large mill where he was delivering his wheat to do a little figuring for him, so that he might be able to determine the profit on his crop. In giving the items of labor he said, "13 days at BUY WHERE, ETC.-Continued. $4 per day for John." The clerk looked at the farmer in surprise and said, "Why, you did not pay that much per day to your hands in the field?" "Yes, I did," was the reply. "Well," said the clerk, "I know that I could have hired plenty of help at less than two dollars per day; why, there were strangers passing the mill looking for work almost every day." The farmer, after a moment of serlous thought, said: "Well, I did pay that boy of mine more than I need to have paid to some stranger or foreigner, but you see, my boy John wants to go back to school again next winter, and he is a good boy. He always pays me well for what I do for him, and you see, after all, it is not a big price. That thirteen days' work just comes to $52 cash. I give the boy the money in his own hands, and I know where it is; he just gave it to his mother to keep for him. So you see that money is in our own house; it is where we could get it in case of tight times. Now, if I had hired some of those fellows who come along to-day and are gone in a few days. even though I had only paid $2 a day, I would be out some money, for the stranger would have taken away $26 for the thirteen days that I never would see again. Also, John, my boy, would not have $52. So, when he is to get ready for school this winter, I would have to raise just $52 which he now owns himself, and that ain't all; I have a payment to make on that old swamp property which I bought last year, and if I should be a little short, John can loan me $50 without interest until I get the potato crop off. "So you see, Mr. Clerk, you may be a great deal smarter than I be in figuring, but I tell you that I believe in takin' care of things at home, if you do pay a little more to them who you may expect some return from. I never could see no use in sending the money away to buy things cheap. I'm for home market-home industry." CANADA-Canadian Tariff on Agricultural Products. No. 53. Animals, living, not elsewhere specified, 20 per cent. ad valorem. Live hogs, 12 cents per pound. Meats, 2 cents per pound, when in barrel, the barrel to be free. Meats, fresh, 3 cents per pound. Canned meats and canned poultry and game, extracts of meats and fluid beef not medicated, and soups, 25 per cent. ad valorem. Mutton and lamb, fresh, 35 per cent. ad valorem. Poultry and game, 20 per cent. ad valorem. CANADA-Continued. Lard, lard compound, and similar substances, cottolene, and animal sterine of all kinds, 2 cents per pound. Tallow and stearic acid, 20 per cent. ad valorem. Beeswax, 10 per cent. ad valorem. Candles, 25 per cent. ad valorem. Soap, pearline, and other soap powders, pumice, silver, and mineral soaps, sapolio and like articles, 35 per cent. ad valorem. Soap, common or laundry, not perfumed, 1 cent per pound. Castile soap, mottled or white, 2 cents per pound. Glue and mucilage, 25 per cent. ad valorem. Feathers, undressed, 20 per cent. ad valorem. Eggs, 5 cents per dozen. Butter, 4 cents per pound. Cheese, 3 cents per pound. Condensed milk, 3 cents per pound. Condensed coffee, condensed coffee with milk, milk foods and all similar preparations, 30 per cent. ad valorem. Apples, 40 cents per barrel, including the duty on the barrel. Beans, 15 cents per bushel. Buckwheat, 10 cents per bushel. Pease, 10 cents per bushel. Potatoes, 15 cents per bushel. Rye, 10 cents per bushel. Rye flour, 50 cents per barrel. Hay, $2 per ton. Vegetables, when fresh or dry-salted, n. e. s., 25 per cent. ad valorem. Barley, 30 per cent. ad valorem. Indian corn, 72 cents per bushel. Dutiable breadstuffs, grain and flour and meal of all kinds, when damaged by water in transitu, 20 per cent. ad valorem upon the appraised value, such appraised value to be ascertained as provided by sections 58, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, and 76 of the customs act. Buckwheat meal or flour, one-fourth of 1 cent per pound. Corn meal, 40 cents per barrel. Oats, 10 cents per bushel. Oat meal, 20 per cent. ad valorem. Rice, uncleaned, unhulled or paddy, three-tenths of 1 cent per pound, but not to be less than 30 per cent. ad valorem. |
